Our Executive Committee
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Sonya Radel - Past President
Sonya is a Field Representative for Dairy Farmers of America, dealing in on-farm milk quality and troubleshooting as well as completing Animal Care, Environmental Stewardship and Workforce Development Surveys through the FARM Program in Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania. She has been in this role with DFA for about 3 years now. She is a graduate of Delaware Valley University where she majored in Agribusiness and minored in Dairy Science and Livestock Science. This is where her love for the dairy industry flourished and she had the opportunity to participate in numerous dairy clubs, classes and internships as well as play collegiate field hockey. After graduation she began my career in the dairy industry and began attending PAFP. She have been attending the conference since 2018 and joined the planning committee in 2022, and she is looking forward to being a part of the executive committee.
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Greyson Smith - President
Greyson has been in the Dairy Industry for his entire life. He started working on his grandparent’s farm as a young boy. Later, he graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with an Animal Science degree. His career with Land O’Lakes Inc. began in 2018 as a Field Staff Member, and he services members of the Co-op in PA, NJ, DE, and MD. Once coming on with Land O’ Lakes Inc. he began participating in PAFP. Other organizations he is a part of are the Southeast PA Inspectors and Lab Group where he is currently the president and hold a seat on the PA FFA Foundation board as well. He enjoys working with the members on a daily basis and spend a great deal of time on farms. Most of his work revolves around Regulatory and milk quality but other sides of the job now include FARM evaluations and Sustainability audits. He appreciates what PAFP does for the PA dairy industry and look forward to serving on the Board for the next few years.
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Jess Enck - Secretary
Jess Enck has been serving as the Microbiology Lab Manager at Lancaster DHIA since September 2022.
Prior to that she worked in pharmaceutical biologics. Jess is a gradate of Albright College with a major in Biology.
While she grew up in Lancaster City, she has always had a passion for animals and interest in agriculture. Jess resides on a small farm in Lititz, Pa with her husband and two kids.
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Bobbi Jo Shoop - Vice-President
Bobbi Jo Shoop has worked in the dairy industry all her life. She grew up on the family dairy farm with grandparents and parents working side by side. In 1998, her father, Fred Fleming, took over and now her brother, Nelson, is running the 3rd generation dairy herd.
She worked in banking for thirteen years and obtained her associate degree in business management. She worked in the Fulton County FSA office and for a local dairy cooperative for 7 years, working with duties of milk samples, hauler tickets, and producer payroll. While at the dairy cooperative, she obtained her bachelor’s in business management. Taking a different path in agriculture, she entered the swine industry managing and breeding sows for a 5200-sow unit and assisting in the finisher pigs.
Currently, Bobbi Jo works with Dairy Farmers of America since 2021 as an industry inspector covering south central PA, MD, and WV areas.
After moving away from the area, her and her husband of 15 years live close to her family farm in Fulton County, Hustontown, PA.
In her free time, she enjoys watching and attending Pittsburgh Pirate games, farming with family, gardening, and taking car rides with her golden retriever, Alle.
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Rebecca Fultz - Treasurer
Becca Fultz began participating in the PAFP planning meetings in 2022 & has offered to serve as the organization’s treasurer in 2023. Becca has been with Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative (MDVA) since 2016 as a Field Representative & was promoted to Field Program Specialist in December 2022. In this role, Becca still performs Field Rep duties while also providing standards, education, leadership, & direction for MDVA’s staff & members on strategic & initiative targeted programs to benefit the cooperative. Becca grew up in the dairy industry of Crawford County where she was active in many facets of 4-H & other extracurricular programs. She currently resides in Dauphin County. Becca holds an A.A.S. in Dairy Science from Morrisville State College & a B.S. in Animal Science from The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to her time with MDVA, she worked for Pennsylvania Farm Bureau & Dauphin County Conservation District.
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Robert Roberts - Faculty Advisor
Dr. Bob. Roberts joined the Food Science Department at Penn State in 1991 and was appointed Department Head in March of 2013. His research focuses on the microbiology and technology of dairy foods, and he serves as the Director of the Penn State Ice Cream Short Course and Ice Cream 101. Bob is a past-president of ADSA and of the Federation of Animal Science Societies (FASS) and is active in the Institute of Food Technologists. He received The Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Alumni Society Academic Advising Award, The Milk Industry Foundation Teaching Award in Dairy Science and was selected as an Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Vermont’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. He lives in State College with his wife Beth, is the proud father of 4 grown children and grandfather to Ethan, Logan, Lena, and Brendan.